From owner-freebsd-hubs Thu May 10 0:58:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from impatience.valueclick.com (impatience.valueclick.com [216.246.96.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA82537B423 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 00:58:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ask@valueclick.com) Received: (qmail 5670 invoked by uid 500); 10 May 2001 07:58:26 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 May 2001 07:58:26 -0000 Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 00:58:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Ask Bjoern Hansen To: Gordon Tetlow Cc: Peter Wemm , hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: load distribution In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 3 May 2001, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > At this rate, we are going to nail the magic number of 8 primary > first-tier mirrors for the ftp.freebsd.org round-robin. After that > the load gets weird with some machines getting more load than > others. It would probably be beneficial to use ultra-dns or some > other closest hop first technology. Has anyone taken a look at it? > or did I just volunteer myself? For ftp.perl.org (and ftp-dist.apache.org, but that's not announced yet or well populated with mirrors) I've made a name server that sends you to one of the mirrors in your country[1], or failing that on the same continent as you. If I in some automated way can get a list of mirrors with their country and (optionally) a weighting it's very easy to add support for ftp.freebsd.org. http://sourceforge.net/projects/dinamed/ - ask [1] or well, obviously it only knows about the ip address of your nameserver, but chances are good that they are in the same country. -- ask bjoern hansen, http://ask.netcetera.dk/ !try; do(); more than 100M impressions per day, http://valueclick.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message